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THE HAMPTON 
NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL 

INSTITUTE 



AND ITS WORK FOR 



NEGRO AND INDIAN YOUTH 



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1899 



BOSTON 
Geo. H. Ellis, Printer, 272 Congress St. 

1899 



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BOARD OF TRUSTEES. V i^ ^ 



Mr. ROBERT C. OGDEN. 
Firm of John Wanamaker, New York. 

/First UicEs^rcsilJCttt. 

Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., 

American Missionary Association, Bible House, New York. 

Btcanti Fices^rcstlifnt. 

Hon. R. W. HUGHES, 

United States District Court, Norfolk, Va. 

Secretary. 

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Rev. H. B. FRISSELL, D.D., 
Hampton, Va. 



Mr. George Foster Peabody . . 27 and 29 Pine Street, New York 

Mr. Charles L. Mead 29 Chambers Street, New York 

Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.U • • • Cambridge, Mass. 

Col. Thomas Tabb Hampton, Va. 

Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D.I). . . 133 E. 35th Street, New York 
Rt. Rev. W. N. McViCKAR, D.D. Providence, R.I. 



NEW YORE PX7BL. SIBtU 



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Prof. Francis G. Peabody Cambridge, Mass. 

Mr. CoLLis P. Huntington, Mills Building, 23 Broad Street, New York 

Rev. D. H. Greer, D.D 342 Madison Avenue, New York 

Mr. Charles E. Bigelow 91 Chambers Street, New York 

Mr. Arthur Curtiss James 11 Cliff Street, New York 

Wm. Jay Schieffelin, Ph.D 170 William Street, New York 



INVESTMENT COMMITTEE. 

Robert C. Ogden, Chairman. 

George Foster Peabody, Treasure?- of the Committee. 

Charles E. Bigelow. 
Arthur Curtiss James. 
Charles L. Mead. 



THE HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRI- 
CULTURAL INSTITUTE. 



Rev. H. B. FRISSELL, D.D., Principal. Rev. H. B. TURNER, Chaplain. 

ALEXANDER PURVES, Treasurer. 



Its Growth Beginning in 1868 with two teachers and 
1868-1898 fifteen students in the old barracks left by the 
civil war, the Hampton School has grown, 
until at the beginning of the present year there were on 
the grounds 1,000 students. Of these, 135 are Indians, 
representing ten States and territories ; 390 are children 
coming from the immediate neighborhood, who are in- 
structed in the Whittier Primary School. There are 610 
boarders, — 385 boys and 225 girls. Of the 80 officers, 
teachers, and assistants, about one-half are in the indus- 
trial departments. 

Instead of the old barracks, there are now over fifty-five 
buildings, including dormitories, academic and science 
buildings, a large trade school, domestic science and agri- 
cultural buildings, a beautiful church, a large saw-mill and 



shops where students help to earn their board and clothes, 
and receive instruction in blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, 
painting, house-building, cabinet-making, upholstery, shoe- 
making, tailoring, harness-making, printing, and engineer- 
ing. Two large farms, with greenhouses, barns, and ex- 
periment stations, give employment to students and in- 
struction in agriculture. The laundry, dining-rooms, 
kitchens, and sewing-rooms give employment to the girls ; 
and in them they receive instruction in sewing, dressmak- 
ing, laundering, and other branches which fit them to in- 
struct their people in these lines. All the domestic work 
of the place is performed by the students. The average 
age of the pupils is nineteen years. 

In 1870 this institution was chartered by spe- 
Control cial act of the General Assembly of Virginia. 

It is not owned or controlled by State or 
Government, but by a board of seventeen trustees, repre- 
senting different sections of the country and six religious 
denominations, no one of which has a majority. The more 
important matters of finance are referred to the Executive 
Committee of the Board, and all endowment funds are 
cared for by the Endowment Committee in New York 
City. All moneys for legacies are placed in the endow- 
ment, or, in rare cases, when unrestricted, used for perma- 
nent improvements. A Board of Curators is appointed by 
the Governor of Virginia to report to the State on the use 
of $10,000, interest on one-third of the Land Scrip Fund 



of Virginia, appropriated to the School toward the agricult- 
ural and military training of its students. 

Twenty-five years ago the imperative need of 
The Aim the Negro was teachers in the country public 
schools of the South, who could show the 
people by example, as well as by precept, how to live, 
how to get land and build decent houses. This need still 
remains ; but, with the improvement of the colored race, 
more thoroughly equipped teachers are necessary, not 
only for the public schools, but for the workshops, and 
for the industrial and agricultural schools that have started 
up all through the South and among the Indians of the 
West. To meet this need, Hampton provides an Academic 
Department with a corps of able teachers, mostly gradu- 
ates of normal schools and colleges, who give 
Academic thorough instruction in the English branches. 
Manual training is given to all the boys, and 
sewing, cooking, and bench work to the girls. Those of 
the boys who show aptitude for trades in the manual train- 
ing classes can receive thorough instruction in the Trade 
School, a building costing $50,000 and es- 
Trades pecially adapted to the work. Competent in- 

struction in carpentry, wood-turning, cabinet- 
making, bricklaying, plastering, wheelwrighting, black- 
smithing, painting, machine work, and mechanical drawing, 
carries students through a systematic course in their differ- 
ent departments, fitting them to be teachers of trades. 



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Chance is also given to do actual work in the sixteen pro- 
ductive industries on the school grounds. 

Those of the girls who wish trades can be 

^ . admitted into the Domestic Science Depart- 

Science 

ment, where they are tramed to be teachers- 

of sewing, cooking, and laundering, with an opportunity to 
do actual work in the School's laundry and kitchen. 

All students of the School receive instruction 
Agriculture in agriculture ; but those who wish to devote 
themselves especially to it can take a course 
in the Agricultural Department, with experiments in the 
laboratory and practical work upon the School's two farms. 
Those who wish to fit themselves to become 
Normal teachers in the public schools, after gradua- 

tion from the Academic Department, enter 
the Normal Department, where they receive instruction in 
methods of teaching and have practice in the Whittier 
Primary School, in which there are over three hundred 
children, with kindergarten and classes in cooking, gym- 
nastics, and sloyd. 

The boys are formed into a battalion under 
Discipline the Commandant of Cadets, a graduate of 
the School, from whom they receive military 
drill and gymnastic training. A United States officer 
from Fort Monroe assists in this work. The care of per- 
sons, quarters, and grounds, is largely under the care of 
the officers of the school battalion. The girls are simi- 



larly organized under two teachers of gymnastics and 

their matrons. 

The School is non-sectarian, but earnestly 

^ ,. . Christian. Careful instruction in the Bible 

Religious 

is given by teachers representing different 

denominations. The Chaplain is assisted by the clergymen 
of Hampton in the religious work of the School. 

Six thousand young people of the Negro and 
Results Indian races have had the advantages of the 

School's training, and gone out as teachers, 
farmers, mechanics, and business men, to lift their people 
to a higher level. Nearly i,ooo have graduated from the 
School's Academic Department ; and of these 90 per cent, 
have become teachers, generally in the public schools. 
Whole counties have been transformed by their work ; 
homes, churches, and schools have been built, farms pur- 
chased, and the morals of the community greatly improved. 
Booker T. Washington, a graduate of Hampton, founded 
the Tuskegee School in Alabama ; and over 40 other grad- 
uates have gone to help him in his work. Schools at Cal- 
houn and Mount Meigs in Alabama, Kittrell in North 
Carolina, Lawrenceville and Gloucester in Virginia, are 
established on the Hampton plan, and carried on by grad- 
uates of the School. Under the teachers who have gone 
out from Hampton and its offshoots, more than 1 50,000 
children have received instruction. Of the 500 Indians 
who have been trained at Hampton, ^y per cent, are en- 



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gaged as teachers, farmers, missionaries, and in other regu- 
lar occupations. Twenty years ago Captain 

miss n Pj-^i-^ brought 1 5 prisoners of war from St. 
Augustine to Hampton, and remained there 
one year, bringing in the mean time other Indians from the 
West. So successful was that first experiment in indus- 
trial education that Carlisle School was established ; and 
now hundreds of thousands of dollars, which were formerly 
devoted to fighting the Indians, are given by the govern- 
ment to training their children in industrial schools. 

Hampton has given an impetus to industrial education 
among the Negroes which is felt in every State of the 
South. Still 75 per cent, of the race live in one-room 
cabins on rented land, in ignorance arid poverty. Teachers 
of agriculture and home builders are needed. 

There is danger that the blacks will lose the trades, 
which were their best heritage from slavery, unless indus- 
trial education is pushed. Young women well trained in 
domestic science must go out to reconstruct the homes. 

The School now has a property worth over 
Finances $600,000, free from debt, and an endowment 

fund of over half a million. It receives aid 
through the State of Virginia for its agricultural work, and 
from the general government toward the board and clothes 
of Indians ; but it is obliged to appeal to the public for 
;^8o,ooo a year. 

The Slater Fund Board makes a generous yearly appro- 



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priation toward its Trade School and domestic science work, 
and help is received from the Peabody Fund ; but the 
School depends for the large part of its yearly expenses 
upon charitable contributions. 

Our colored students come largely from the country 
districts, where many of them have struggled to help their 
parents to purchase the little homes in which they live. 
They must have a chance to earn a large part of their 
board and clothes, for they can furnish but little money. 
To provide them with work is expensive, but vastly better 
than to give them direct aid. 

The tuition of $70, which provides the salaries of their 
academic, trade, and agricultural instructors, must be pro- 
vided by Northern friends. 

The board and clothes of our Indian pupils are provided 
by an annual appropriation of Congress, but $70 scholar- 
ships are asked to provide their tuition. Scholarship letters 
are written by those receiving aid to those 
bcnolarsnip ^^^ ^-^^ -^ . ^^^ ^^i^^ ^ personal relation is 

established, which is often of comfort and help 
to the donor and recipient. Every effort is made to keep 
from pauperizing students. The $yo scholarship provides 
no more than is given by endowments to the sons of the 
wealthy in Northern colleges. 

The North and South are working together for the 
Negro. The latter has given in taxation since 1870 about 
sixtv millions of dollars, and the former in donations about 



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twenty millions. About a million a year now comes from 
the North and over three millions yearly from the South- 
ern States for Negro schools. The South supports the 
free schools : the North maintains institutions for providing 
them with teachers. 

^47,000 has been raised for the erection and 
Needs equipment of the Armstrong and Slater Me- 

morial Trade School Building, where 140 
students are learning trades. The sum of ^5,000 is asked 
for its fuller equipment. 

A year ago, a very complete building costing ^48,000, 
was given to the School for Domestic Science and Agri- 
cultural work. Its equipment has already cost ^5,000, and 
$6,000 more will be needed to put it into good working 
order. 

A new dormitory is needed for the boys, and an exten- 
sion must be added to the girls' building. 

Our library and library building must be enlarged. 
An addition costing $10,000 with equipment must be 
added soon. Good books for travelling libraries to send 
to graduate teachers in the country districts are of great 
service. 

The School's printing-press has been in constant use for 
more than twelve years. A new one must soon take its 
place. 

The Southern 'Workman, a forty-page magazine, is 
printed monthly by the students at the School Press, and 



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contains valuable information in regard to Negroes and 
Indians. Subscription price, $i.oo a year. 

General Armstrong, the founder, and for 

twenty-five years the principal, of the School, 
Armstroiiff s 

__ p:ave his life to it. In a memorandum found 

Message ^. , 

with his will occur these words : *' Hampton 

must not go down. See to it, you who are true to the 
black and red children of the land and to just ideas of 
education." 

Gifts may be sent by check on any bank, by registered 
letter or postal order to Alexander Purves, Treasurer, 
Hampton, Va., or to the undersigned. 

H. B. FRISSELL, 

Pi'incipal. 
Hampton, Va., Feb. i, 1899. 



FORM OF BEQUEST. 



I give and devise to the Trustees of the Hampton Normal 
and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Virginia, the sum 
of dollars, payable, etc. 



5. VM. 2.99. 



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